From: "Ivana Humpalot" Subject: Re: Larry Ellison comments on Microsoft's benchmark Date: 2000/07/07 Message-ID: #1/1 References: <39527E0C.E614B483@penev.com> <395554AC.9D413341@penev.com> <8ja49v$1nnk$1@adenine.netfront.net> <3958CCCA.694E57B3@ca.ibm.com> <39616BBF.C3CFA30C@ca.ibm.com> <39625320.12A2DDFA@ca.ibm.com> <2jv85.27607$i5.283945@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com> <39629B7D.714D7427@ca.ibm.com> <1CA85.28659$i5.293607@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com> <39634D10.AF8FD314@ca.ibm.com> <39641169.5C934DDC@ca.ibm.com> <39647E61.5C0A238D@ca.ibm.com> <396514F2.C5271109@ca.ibm.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com 962942927 24.15.91.57 (Thu, 06 Jul 2000 21:08:47 PDT) Organization: none X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 21:08:47 PDT Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver,comp.databases.oracle.server,microsoft.public.sqlserver.server,comp.databases.sybase,comp.databases.ibm-db2 "Blair Kenneth Adamache" wrote: > > You can cross mount disks with shared nothing (also called drive > mapping). Only one node owns the disk at any time. If the owner node > fails, the mutual takeover node gets the IP of the failing node, and > takes over the disk. Thank you for the info and the link to IBM documentation. From what I understand, MSCS clusters are limited to 2 servers per cluster. So if you have 12 machines you have 6 independent clusters. Isn't this still 6 times less reliable than Oracle Parallel Server? > > Does the 135461 Oracle result on Solaris use OPS? > Yes, it does. Since this is a cluster configuration it has to be using OPS. For further confirmation click on Executive Summary. Under "Server Software" it says "Oracle OPS8i".